"The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans.The extension of EU enlargement policy to the Western Balkans has generated high expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic institution-building and foster reform,...

This book is about transformation in the framework of European integration. Specifically, the path of the Balkans to European integration is outlined, although the track is admittedly uncertain. The Balkan countries have acquired particular importance since the 1990s due to their domestic...

Since the late 1990s financial strategies for opening Eastern European markets and entry strategies of foreign banks in most CESEE countries included triggers for strong credit growth, especially in the private sector. What are the transition results on the macro level? Does this credit growth...

The paper will focus on the trajectories the Western Balkans went after '90s, moving from a Balkanizations paradigm towards an Europeanization one. Although it is acknowledged that the transformations have been sometimes running in parallel and that there is no clear-cut of when a process ends...